Friedrich Engels and the foundations of socialist governance / Roland Boer.
2021
HX73 .B64 2021
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Title
Friedrich Engels and the foundations of socialist governance / Roland Boer.
Author
Boer, Roland, author.
ISBN
9789811646959 (electronic bk.)
9811646953 (electronic bk.)
9789811646942
9811646945
9811646953 (electronic bk.)
9789811646942
9811646945
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 123 pages)
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10.1007/978-981-16-4695-9 doi
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HX73 .B64 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.53/1
Summary
This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges--the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to understand how they have developed their structures, it is time to return to the roots of the Marxist tradition and re-examine the question of socialist governance. It was Friedrich Engels (and less so Marx) who laid out some of the theoretical foundations for socialist governance. On the basis of extensive research in 1870s and 1880s, Engels developed his analysis of the nature of hitherto existing states as a "separated public power" the role of the dictatorship of the proletariat and its exercise of power; the actual meaning of the "withering away of the state" which would be one of the very last outcomes of socialist construction; and the nature of socialist governance itself. On this matter, he proposed a de-politicised public power that would stand in the midst of society and focus on managing the processes of production for the sake of the true interests of society
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SpringerBriefs in philosophy. 2211-4556
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Separated Public Power: On Hitherto Existing States
Chapter 2. Socialist Gewalt and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Chapter 3. Abolition or Dying Away of the State?
Chapter 4. Towards Enmeshed Socialist Governance
Conclusion.
Chapter 1. Separated Public Power: On Hitherto Existing States
Chapter 2. Socialist Gewalt and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Chapter 3. Abolition or Dying Away of the State?
Chapter 4. Towards Enmeshed Socialist Governance
Conclusion.